reading response #4: Article on Plagiarism

I don't understand how copying something from the internet for school is not plagiarism. Because you are taking someone else's work and using it as your own. But the definition of plagiarism is copying someone else's work and putting your name on it and using it as their own. People believe that now that we have more electronics that plagiarism is more likely to happen now then 10 years ago. Professors don't quite understand why plagiarism is so widespread and they will not excuse it. All teachers believe that if you copy someone else work you are not learning any yourself. Therefore they are not doing their jobs. Most professors believe that the amount of plagiarism has gone up a lot because the students have resources like never before that gives them the information they need at the touch of a button. As you can see in the picture from above it shows you the difference of purposely plagiarizing and accidently plagiarizing. Susan D Blum states, " Today's students stand at the crossroads of a new way of conceiving texts and the people who cream them and who quote them." What she is saying is basically what I stated earlier. The access to information is way to easy and the security for the information is very weak and students take advantage of that now a days.